Development of Perl's Module::Build ()

John M. Gamble | 11 Jan 2012 03:36

Stopping a Pointless C Compiler Warning

I don't know which upgrade brought this, but currently when I use Build.PL
(and the resulting Build files) I get (in reverse video no less) the
message:

It looks like you don't have a C compiler on your PATH, so you will not be
able to compile C or XS extension modules.  You can install GCC from the
MinGW package using the Perl Package Manager by running:

    ppm install MinGW

I've become somewhat numb to it, but it's a completely pointless and
unhelpful message, since this machine I'm working on will never develop
anything in C. I haven't been able to find anything in Module::Build
documentation that tells me how to tell it that this is a pure Perl
module. Can anyone steer me in the right direction?

I'm using ActiveState perl version 5.14.1, and Module::Build version 0.3800.

Thanks,
     -john

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Fields, Christopher J | 11 Jan 2012 04:16

Re: Stopping a Pointless C Compiler Warning

That message originates from Activestate's ppm; see this link:

http://community.activestate.com/node/7553

chris

On Jan 10, 2012, at 8:36 PM, John M. Gamble wrote:

> I don't know which upgrade brought this, but currently when I use Build.PL
> (and the resulting Build files) I get (in reverse video no less) the
> message:
> 
> It looks like you don't have a C compiler on your PATH, so you will not be
> able to compile C or XS extension modules.  You can install GCC from the
> MinGW package using the Perl Package Manager by running:
> 
>    ppm install MinGW
> 
> I've become somewhat numb to it, but it's a completely pointless and
> unhelpful message, since this machine I'm working on will never develop
> anything in C. I haven't been able to find anything in Module::Build
> documentation that tells me how to tell it that this is a pure Perl
> module. Can anyone steer me in the right direction?
> 
> I'm using ActiveState perl version 5.14.1, and Module::Build version 0.3800.
> 
> Thanks,
>     -john
>

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John M. Gamble | 11 Jan 2012 17:43

Re: Stopping a Pointless C Compiler Warning

On Tue, January 10, 2012 9:16 pm, Fields, Christopher J wrote:
> That message originates from Activestate's ppm; see this link:
>
> http://community.activestate.com/node/7553
>
> chris
>

Thanks. Pity they don't seem to have a solution.

     -john

>
> Chris Fields
> Senior Research Scientist
> National Center for Supercomputing Applications
> Institute for Genomic Biology
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign